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Title/Text link: The One Where They're Anti-Globalization Protesters
Author:sapote3
Fandom: SGA
Pairing: McKay/Sheppard
Length: ~48 minutes
Download: http://www.sendspace.com/file/33a81p
Tone: I liked Izzady's voice and the general tone of her reading, which is low key, consistent, and effective. I particularly enjoyed the way she reads dialog, bringing the characters and what they are experiencing alive without over-dramatization.
Pacing: Pace was a bit variable, and sometimes a little faster than I would have preferred during narrative passages, particularly longer ones. Dialog pacing was good. I would also have liked brief pauses – or longer pauses than were present – at scene changes, or where there was a break in time in the story.
Editing: There were a handful of minor errors – editing cuts that could have been cleaned up and mispronounced words – between 9:00 and 19:00, enough to be a bit distracting. However, the rest of the reading was almost entirely error-free.
Volume/Sound Quality: The volume was fine, sufficiently high that if I'd needed to turn it up loud to compete with background noise, it would have been fine. The only exception was the outro, which was significantly quieter than the body of the story, but still sufficient; I just had to turn the volume up for that section. Sound quality was also fine; any background noise was subtle enough that I didn't notice it unless I listened for it.
Music/Special Effects: None.
Fic Choice: This story worked very nicely for the podfic format, and I very much enjoyed learning what it meant to Izzady (see Exit section below).
Intro: Izzady began the recording with header information, which I really appreciate (and always miss when it's absent). I thought that the info on pairing and warnings was a bit more than needed, but that's strictly mild personal preference, and mostly I'm just glad that the intro was there instead of just diving right into the story. However, I wish that she had also mentioned her own name. Podficcing is (in my opinion) a performance art, as well as a lot of hard work, and the reader deserves credit just as much as the author. Since I often listen to podfic in situations where I am not looking at the media player to see the metadata, I like to hear both the author's name and the reader's either at the beginning of the recording or after the end of the story (or both).
Exit: At the end of the story, she said paused briefly and then said "The End" – which I love. If a recording simply ends without any formal close, I find it extremely jarring, particularly if my media player immediately starts the next track in a playlist. She followed this with "Reader's Notes" including thanks to the author and information on how to leave feedback, and, best of all, a brief explanation of why she chose to record this story and what it means to her. It enriched my experience of the story, especially on my second pass through it.
Things I liked:
Izzady is very good at reading dialog and consistently did a great job at it throughout the story. I particularly enjoyed her lovely Teyla voice; Izzady didn't attempt to imitate her, but rather used a perfect combination of subtle cues in tone and diction. It made Teyla vividly present when she was speaking. Rodney's voice was also clearly recognizable, which I appreciated.
At 19:20: The last few sentences of this conversation between John and Rodney are beautifully read, especially the gradually slowing pace in John's voice toward the end. This is just one specific example; there are a lot of other dialog passages that have particular weight or emotional significance to the characters that are also similarly well read and paced.
The passages that described significant moments in what John (the POV character) was feeling were also beautifully read, with wonderful pacing that enhanced my sense of being inside John's head.
These are things that are very important to me; they do a lot to make listening actively pleasurable for its own sake, making podfic more than just an alternative delivery method for text. It's things like this that will make me go look for more of a particular reader's work.
Things I didn't like:
This may seem overly picky, but it's a personal pet peeve: There were times when I could hear Izzady smiling as she read, and that bothers me. It takes me out of the characters' heads and puts me into the reader's head instead. It's not a big deal, but I find it distracting enough to mention.
Another pet peeve: At times, the tone/pitch of a sentence of dialog was carried through into the tag that followed (after the closing quotes). For example, at 35:21: "Do they have a sign I can carry that says 'my years and years of research say this is a really terrible plan?'" Rodney asks. The rising pitch of Rodney's question continues in "Rodney asks" even though that is no longer part of a question, and therefore should return to neutral tone and pitch. Again, not a big deal, but something that always distracts me.
Editing issues:
9:35: Tiny blip (too much cut?)
9:49: "Impugns" mispronounced "im-pungs"; should be "im-pyoons"
10:50: Awkward cut between "seems to enjoy" and "thumbing his nose"
12:17: Pronunciation of "Puerto Vallarta" doesn't sound quite right; shd be "pwair-toe vie-ahr-tah"
15:26: "Assiduously" is pronounced "ah-sid-yoo-us-lee"
16:58: Is that supposed to be "convergence center" or "conference center"?
18:03: Minor stumble pronouncing "refrigerator"
31:32: Tiny blip (too much cut?)
In summary: I enjoyed listening to this podfic very much. It was no hardship to listen three times in 24 hours in order to write this feedback review. It's a keeper and will have a place on my SGA podfic playlist.
izzadyTitle/Text link: The One Where They're Anti-Globalization Protesters
Author:
sapote3Fandom: SGA
Pairing: McKay/Sheppard
Length: ~48 minutes
Download: http://www.sendspace.com/file/33a81p
Tone: I liked Izzady's voice and the general tone of her reading, which is low key, consistent, and effective. I particularly enjoyed the way she reads dialog, bringing the characters and what they are experiencing alive without over-dramatization.
Pacing: Pace was a bit variable, and sometimes a little faster than I would have preferred during narrative passages, particularly longer ones. Dialog pacing was good. I would also have liked brief pauses – or longer pauses than were present – at scene changes, or where there was a break in time in the story.
Editing: There were a handful of minor errors – editing cuts that could have been cleaned up and mispronounced words – between 9:00 and 19:00, enough to be a bit distracting. However, the rest of the reading was almost entirely error-free.
Volume/Sound Quality: The volume was fine, sufficiently high that if I'd needed to turn it up loud to compete with background noise, it would have been fine. The only exception was the outro, which was significantly quieter than the body of the story, but still sufficient; I just had to turn the volume up for that section. Sound quality was also fine; any background noise was subtle enough that I didn't notice it unless I listened for it.
Music/Special Effects: None.
Fic Choice: This story worked very nicely for the podfic format, and I very much enjoyed learning what it meant to Izzady (see Exit section below).
Intro: Izzady began the recording with header information, which I really appreciate (and always miss when it's absent). I thought that the info on pairing and warnings was a bit more than needed, but that's strictly mild personal preference, and mostly I'm just glad that the intro was there instead of just diving right into the story. However, I wish that she had also mentioned her own name. Podficcing is (in my opinion) a performance art, as well as a lot of hard work, and the reader deserves credit just as much as the author. Since I often listen to podfic in situations where I am not looking at the media player to see the metadata, I like to hear both the author's name and the reader's either at the beginning of the recording or after the end of the story (or both).
Exit: At the end of the story, she said paused briefly and then said "The End" – which I love. If a recording simply ends without any formal close, I find it extremely jarring, particularly if my media player immediately starts the next track in a playlist. She followed this with "Reader's Notes" including thanks to the author and information on how to leave feedback, and, best of all, a brief explanation of why she chose to record this story and what it means to her. It enriched my experience of the story, especially on my second pass through it.
Things I liked:
Izzady is very good at reading dialog and consistently did a great job at it throughout the story. I particularly enjoyed her lovely Teyla voice; Izzady didn't attempt to imitate her, but rather used a perfect combination of subtle cues in tone and diction. It made Teyla vividly present when she was speaking. Rodney's voice was also clearly recognizable, which I appreciated.
At 19:20: The last few sentences of this conversation between John and Rodney are beautifully read, especially the gradually slowing pace in John's voice toward the end. This is just one specific example; there are a lot of other dialog passages that have particular weight or emotional significance to the characters that are also similarly well read and paced.
The passages that described significant moments in what John (the POV character) was feeling were also beautifully read, with wonderful pacing that enhanced my sense of being inside John's head.
These are things that are very important to me; they do a lot to make listening actively pleasurable for its own sake, making podfic more than just an alternative delivery method for text. It's things like this that will make me go look for more of a particular reader's work.
Things I didn't like:
This may seem overly picky, but it's a personal pet peeve: There were times when I could hear Izzady smiling as she read, and that bothers me. It takes me out of the characters' heads and puts me into the reader's head instead. It's not a big deal, but I find it distracting enough to mention.
Another pet peeve: At times, the tone/pitch of a sentence of dialog was carried through into the tag that followed (after the closing quotes). For example, at 35:21: "Do they have a sign I can carry that says 'my years and years of research say this is a really terrible plan?'" Rodney asks. The rising pitch of Rodney's question continues in "Rodney asks" even though that is no longer part of a question, and therefore should return to neutral tone and pitch. Again, not a big deal, but something that always distracts me.
Editing issues:
9:35: Tiny blip (too much cut?)
9:49: "Impugns" mispronounced "im-pungs"; should be "im-pyoons"
10:50: Awkward cut between "seems to enjoy" and "thumbing his nose"
12:17: Pronunciation of "Puerto Vallarta" doesn't sound quite right; shd be "pwair-toe vie-ahr-tah"
15:26: "Assiduously" is pronounced "ah-sid-yoo-us-lee"
16:58: Is that supposed to be "convergence center" or "conference center"?
18:03: Minor stumble pronouncing "refrigerator"
31:32: Tiny blip (too much cut?)
In summary: I enjoyed listening to this podfic very much. It was no hardship to listen three times in 24 hours in order to write this feedback review. It's a keeper and will have a place on my SGA podfic playlist.